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Bug 367372

Summary: [api] provide list of required attributes for task initialization
Product: z_Archived Reporter: Thomas Ehrnhoefer <thomas.ehrnhoefer>
Component: MylynAssignee: Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged>
Status: CLOSED MOVED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: jacek.kisynski
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
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Bug Blocks: 290606    

Description Thomas Ehrnhoefer CLA 2011-12-21 16:37:00 EST 
Some connectors require certain initialization data (e.g. a task type, a product) set before the task data (and thus the editor) is created.

Right now, Mylyn lets the NewTaskEditor of a connector handle setting that and making sure they are valid. I think this should be made more explicit, in order to make sure that when "initializeTaskData" is called, the right set of values are passed in using an ITaskMapping instance.

Not perfectly certain how to best implement this.

The use case is that for my application, before calling "initializeTaskData", I want to make sure that I have all the information the connector needs (e.g. a product), and if not, provide UI feedback, rather than relying on the error message of the connector giving me enough information so this can be displayed to the user.
Comment 1 Steffen Pingel CLA 2012-03-23 19:09:45 EDT 
Agreed. This should be considered as part of an effort to provide an abstraction for repository configuration.
Comment 2 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST 
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